Word: retreated
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...proposed social spending will strike savagely at the poor. Republicans are so horrified by giant deficits that some staunch conservatives are grumbling that planned defense spending ought to be reduced to stem the river of red ink. As Reagan himself noted in the budget message: "The voices of doubt, retreat and rejection are beginning to rise...
...those voices, the President turned a resolutely deaf ear. He headlined one section of his message NO TIME TO RETREAT. His 1981 accomplishments in slashing taxes and civilian spending while starting a huge military buildup, Reagan boasted, "far exceed anything the skeptics and critics ever dreamed possible just one year ago." The President added: "Our task is to persevere, to stay the course . . . to weather the temporary dislocations and pressures that must inevitably accompany the restoration of national economic, fiscal and military health...
Industry analysts believe that RCA's retreat from the world of conglomerates will result in a healthier company. Said R. Joseph Fuchs of Wall Street's Kidder, Peabody: "It makes sense to get rid of the diversified businesses and hop back to being a communications company." The sale of C.I.T. or Hertz would also give RCA some badly needed cash to spend on expensive new ventures into satellite communications, cable programming and broadcasting. - By Christopher Byron Reported by Peter Stoler/New York
...literary result is Albert Corde, the latest and best of Bellow's old cogitators. Corde, a Chicago college dean, spends a great deal of time in an underheated Bucharest apartment waiting for his mother-in-law to die in a state hospital and mulling over the retreat of "personal humanity" before "the worldwide process of consolidation." The woman was an eminent psychiatrist and former Minister of Health whose humanism was incompatible with the Communist regime. Corde's wife Minna is an astrophysicist who defected to the U.S. and must now beg a vindictive bureaucracy for permission...
...Israeli law was suddenly so critical, and instead he recalled past Syrian injustices to Israel. The timing was perfect; in addition to the Polish confrontation, Syrian troops are tied down as "peace-keepers" in Lebanon, and the United States and Egypt seem determined not to provoke an Israeli retreat from the Sinai withdrawal scheduled for April. With Israeli conservatives clamoring for aggressive action. Begin's initiative appears to have been grounded only in opportunism...